On this day, at the age of only 24 years, Dante’s muse Beatrice Portinari died. Dante Alighieri saw, it seems, this Florentine girl only twice in his life, but it was en...
On this day in 1654, French King Louis XIV, also known by the nickname the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil), was crowned. Louis XIV was one of the most influential kings in Frenc...
On this day in 1618, Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, died. The U.S. state Delaware was named after him. Lord De La Warr was a colonial governor in the territory of what is...
On this day the corpse of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, also referred to as the “Angel of Death” or “White Angel”, was exhumed in Brazil. Mengele was one of the most wan...
On this day in 1984, the legendary computer game Tetris was conceived. It was programmed in the USSR by Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian engineer who worked for the Computer Ce...
Less than five years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot on this day. The brothers came from the most fam...
This day marked the beginning of the Six-Day War. During six days, Israel managed to quadruple its territory and defeat three Arab states – Egypt, Jordan, and Syria...
On this day one of the biggest Cold War sex scandals was resolved. British Defense Secretary John Profumo resigned from his post due to relationship with the beautiful Ch...